Sentence examples for taking virtue from inspiring English sources

Aristotle can be understood as taking virtue to consist of certain emotional dispositions, acquired through habit earlier in life, and later fine tuned through the exercise of intellectual skills, 22 and Hume and Mill took an 'aversion to evil' and 'appetite to good' to be central to moral motivation.

In Syntagma Square, in downtown Athens, Tsipras ended his speech with the words of a famous Greek poet of the 19th century, Andreas Kalvos: "Freedom takes virtue and courage".

We can best appreciate the notion that virtue is the good, then, if we take virtue as both acknowledging that the universe is well governed and adopting the point of view, so to speak, of the government (DL VII 87-9).

Thus, rather than treating admirable character traits as more basic than the notions of right and wrong conduct, Kant takes virtues to be explicable only in terms of a prior account of moral or dutiful behavior.

Moreover, Hume views all of our traits as effects of natural causation; and he takes virtues to be the sorts of traits that commonly and naturally arise among human beings not as rare qualities that have to be arduously cultivated.

Yet even taking these virtues into account, the finances of the Catholic church in America are an unholy mess.

Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-lived life.

But McCain and Cantwell are, at least, taking the virtues of Glass-Steagall seriously.

MacGregor has taken that virtue and amplified it.

"Ultimately, vice just took over virtue, and he could not control himself," she says in the film, with a disarming, girlish laugh.

By Richard Eberhart The New Yorker, March 28 , 1970P. 36 I take no virtue of this as I finger the hand gun, View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By John Cassidy By Jia Tolentino.